31. III. 1918

Comrade Muralov

I propose that you take measures so that from the Ryabushinsky printing-house a printing machine be released, requisitioned for the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

1 N. I. Muralov — in 1918 — commander of the forces of the Moscow Military District.

2 P. P. Ryabushinsky — major Moscow banker and industrialist, one of the chiefs of counter-revolution. Published the newspaper "Utro Rossii" (Morning of Russia), expressing the interests of big bourgeoisie. After the victory of the October Revolution emigrated to France, where he conducted counter-revolutionary activity against the Soviet state.

3 On the document there is a record that V. I. Lenin's directive was carried out on 2 April 1918.